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M. WISE, Heel for Boots-and Shoes.

Patented Feb'. 8,1881.

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Patented Feb. 8,1881.

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MORRIS WISE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HEEL FoR BooTs-AND sHoEs.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,651, dated February 8, 1881.

Application filed December 31, 1880. (Model.)

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, MORRIS WISE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Heels for Boots and Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists in a new article of manufacture-namely, a molded or pressed boot or shoe heel consisting of a shell or casing formed from a single piece of material, with a solid bottom and continuous solid walls having outwardly-Haring edges, the interiorofsaid shell or casing being lilled with lifts of leather permanently connected with each other and with the interior walls and bottom of said shell or casing, all of which will be more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure l represents a perspective view of the improved heel constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section ofthe same. Fig.3 isa. plan view of the leather blank used to form the'heel-shaped shell or casing. Fig. tshows the male and female crimping-dies for making the heel-shaped shell or casing. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the female crimping-die. Fig. 6 is a like View of a female crimping-die having a different outline from the one shown in the preceding figures. Fig. 7 shows the re-pressing or finishing die, in vertical section, placed opposite to the female crimping-die. Fig. 8 shows a re-pressing die used with a female crimping-die corresponding to that shown in Fig. 5.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, the letter A indicates the shell or casing, which is brought by the aid of suitable dies into the form ofa heel of the contour or shape desiredfor the market, the said shell or casing being made from a single piece or blank of leather, with a solid bottom or tread and continuous solid walls, all as avunit or integral, without any seam, the interior of said shell or casing being filled with lifts of leather for the purpose of imparting strength to the continuous walls of the shell or casing, thereby supporting the sameagainst lateral strain, and at the same time wearing away with the walls and becoming the tread in ease the bottom or tread of the shell or casing becomes worn away by usage. The continuous solid walls of the shell or casing are outwardly at their upper edges and thereby form, as it were, a flange or seat for enabling the heel, when filled with lifts, to be compactly vseated and neatly adjusted upon the sole of 'to the market, ready for the manufacturerand completed for application to the sole of boots and shoes, there being present in the article the continuous outwardly-projecting flange or seat above the core which enables the heel to be adjusted in position and connected with its sole. c

If a shell or casing be made with the solebf a boot or shoe to form a combined sole and heel therefor, as in English Patent No. 3,371, of 1865, as an article for the trade, it can only be attached to a boot or shoe provided with a double sole, as the upper must be stitched to one of the soles, while the other serves as a foundation for sewing on the combined sole and heel; hence by such mode of connection the stitches are exposed along the edges of the sole. In the United States patent to Robert Taylor, dated February 29, 1876, is shown a machine for shaping the heels of boots and shoes; but in such machine the blank ofleather is converted into a shell to form a heel without a bottom or tread, said bottom being made -by annexing a separate piece of leather or a lift to form the treading-surface. This differs from my invention, as I form the tread or bottom, together with the continuous solid walls, from a blank of leather, as an integral,

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without n seam, the walls of the shell or oasing having ering edges for eifording means to connect the heel with the sole.

In order to make n shell or casing for u boot or shoe and apply within the interior of the same t lling of lifts of leather, I select e piece or bla-nk, Aft, of leather, such as sole-leather, ont to the general form shown in Fig. 3, and soften it by immcrsing it in wnterfor a period of about six hours. The blank in its softened condition is subjected to the notion of dies C I) for the purpose of crimping and pressing the leather into the form of n shell or casing of the shape desired for the heel. Into the shell or casing thus crimped and pressed, while it remains in the female die C, are introduced the lifts, connected and coated with cement, ns hereinbefore stated, which, as n core, is then subjected to the action of a repressing or finishing die, E, for n. period of about ten minutes, whereby the core isrmly and permenentlyconneoted with the shell or casing and the heel completed ready for the market.

Prior to my invention n heel for boots and vshoes hns been made in form of' n shell from n single piece of leather, snid shell beingzitten ward filled with leather or other material; but

neetiner the core with the interior ot' the shell, p

as in my invention.

That I claim ns my invention is- Theherein-deseribed heelforboots and shoes, Y

the same consisting of' a shell or casing formed from a single piece of material, with the solid bottom and continuons solid walls herring outwardly-flaring edges, the interior of said shell or casing being,` lleil with lifts of leather permanently connected with each other and with the interior wells und bottom of said shell or casing, substantially es and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereot' lin-ve hereunto set my hand in the presence ot' two subscribing wit.- nesses.

MORRIS WISE.

Witnesses:

JAMES L. Nonns, ALBERT H. NoRRIs. 

